Ten­sions in the re­gion amid the im­passe be­tween the Unit­ed States and Venezuela, and Trinidad and To­ba­go’s in­volve­ment in the sit­u­a­tion, are rais­ing con­cerns among some for­eign vis­i­tors ahead of Car­ni­val 2026, says pro­mot­er Kwe­si “Hy­pa Hop­pa” Hop­kin­son.

The de­liv­ery of tan­gi­bles and con­tin­ued re­struc­tur­ing from the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Gov­ern­ment and ef­forts from the Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) with food banks and em­ploy­ment as­sis­tance for cit­i­zens are all part of what will un­fold from both sides in 2026.

Friends and rel­a­tives of 21-year-old Eoin Kaz­im Pe­ters are mourn­ing his death fol­low­ing a fa­tal road traf­fic ac­ci­dent along the Sir Solomon Ho­choy High­way in Gas­par­il­lo ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Res­i­dents of Pi­paro are be­ing urged to stay away from the crater of the Pi­paro mud vol­cano, which re­mains high­ly ac­tive and dan­ger­ous, ac­cord­ing to a new re­port from the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies.

A Mar­aval man who stopped to an­swer a call on his cell phone along Nel­son Street in Port-of-Spain on Sat­ur­day night, was shot twice by gun­men.

The Gov­ern­ment has ex­tend­ed the max­i­mum age to eight years for cer­tain im­port­ed ve­hi­cles and tight­ened el­i­gi­bil­i­ty rules for elec­tric ve­hi­cles, un­der amend­ments to the Mo­tor Ve­hi­cles and Road Traf­fic Act tak­ing ef­fect in 2026.

The Gov­ern­ment has re­moved cus­toms du­ty on a wide range of agri­cul­tur­al equip­ment and in­puts from Jan­u­ary 1, 2026.

The Gov­ern­ment has tight­ened cus­toms du­ty con­ces­sions on elec­tric and CNG ve­hi­cles, lim­it­ing who ben­e­fits and by how much, un­der an amend­ment tak­ing ef­fect from Jan­u­ary 1, 2026.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice has warned that “firm and de­ci­sive ac­tion” will be tak­en against any­one who breach­es new­ly pro­claimed fire­works leg­is­la­tion now in force.

Gun­shots rang out on Sat­ur­day evening, end­ing the life of 35-year-old Ki­jana Matthew Co­dring­ton, whose body was lat­er found on a road­way in Mara­bel­la.

The gov­ern­ment has in­creased fees for births and deaths reg­is­tra­tion, with changes tak­ing ef­fect on Jan­u­ary 1, 2026. The ad­just­ments were made un­der Le­gal No­tice 480, pub­lished in the of­fi­cial Gazette on Christ­mas Day.

A fam­i­ly is mourn­ing as the new year ap­proach­es fol­low­ing a fa­tal road traf­fic ac­ci­dent along the Sir Solomon Ho­choy High­way in Gas­par­il­lo ear­ly Sun­day morn­ing.